Tank at Hanford leaking radioactive material

[NoOne]

The only way the government will truly effectively deal with this issue is if all the waste is moved to Washington D.C. If it is in the backyard, and under the offices of senators, representatives, cabinet members, and the pres, then my guess is that they will suddenly find an effective way to deal with it.

Of course moving all the sludge isn't practical, but I'm sure my point is understood. As long as it doesn't effect those people, they are content to look the other way.

 

[PaulZ]

Looked it up; also have chemtrails, black helicopters, space brothers and sasquatch (the last one is real)

look it up! You have the internet!!!

 

[revjen45]

Makes you wonder how that soggy biscuit contender gets re-elected down there.

SEIU in the hospitality industry. There are lots of them.

 

[ATCclears]

Hanford nuclear site clean-up: The mess gets worse - Investigations

Snippet:

But today, construction of the factory is only two-thirds complete after billions of dollars in spending, leaving partially constructed buildings and heavy machinery scattered across the 65-acre site, a short distance from the Columbia River.

Technical personnel have expressed concerns about the plant's ability to operate safely, and say the government and its contractor have tried to discredit them, and in some cases harassed and punished them. Experts also say that some of the tanks have already leaked radioactive waste into the groundwater below, and worry that the contamination is now making its way to the river, a major regional source of drinking water.

 

[HappyRoman]

And you wonder why the fish in The Columbia, are glowing, and looking stranger each year?

 

[PiratePast40]

And you wonder why the fish in The Columbia, are glowing, and looking stranger each year?

I like it, makes fishing at night a whole lot more fun.

 

[coop44]

put them in an aquarium, save on lighting costs! depending on how they mutate, better than sea monkeys!

 

[ATCclears]

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[U201491]

Hanford has been leaking for 40 yrs.

 

[44mag2ndamend]

Great, no worries attitude from the Governor? I guess it will just end up in the Pacific with all the bubblegumishima crap?

No Worries Here!

 

[U201491]

Great, no worries attitude from the Governor? I guess it will just end up in the Pacific with all the bubblegumishima crap?

No Worries Here!

There was a mishap or two there also, and about everyone in the Dalles area got a dose or two as well.
Hanford has a history. Seepage has been dumping in the Columbia for decades.

 

[PiratePast40]

It's been a wasteland for over 200 miles from Hanford for several decades. The towns of Richland, Kennewick, and Pasco are ghost towns now. There's only graveyards and exclusion zones on the Columbia all the way to Portland. Half of that city is sick and dying people.

Oh wait, none of that is true. Crap, let's grab the pitchforks and torches anyway.

 

[U201491]

Yep Not a thing to be concerned about.




Radiation Dose Chart
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Now for the grit...

Highly radioactive: 1,000 gallons of nuclear waste leak in Washington every year
Highly radioactive: 1,000 gallons of nuclear waste leak in Washington every year ? RT USA


The Hanford facility is considered the most contaminated nuclear sites in the nation.
It is also the oldest in the world, with plutonium from the site used to make the atom
bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II. It borders the Columbia River.
Read more: DOE seeking source of radiation at troubled Hanford nuclear complex - UPI.com


US state in new alert over nuclear waste leak
US state in new alert over nuclear waste leak


Nuke Sludge Leaking at Hanford | Consortiumnews
For 40 years, Hanford's eight production reactors made plutonium for H-bombs, and in the process
its contractors dumped plutonium, cesium, technetium, tritium, strontium and other isotopes into the air,
soil, ground water and, astonishingly, even directly into the Columbia River &#8212; the drinking water source for downstream cities.

Hanford has 54 million gallons of the high-level liquids and sludge in 177 aged and decrepit tanks. In the
1980s, the Department of Energy (DOE) disclosed that up to 69 of the million-gallon tanks were leaking.
February's disclosure makes 75.
Nuke Sludge Leaking at Hanford | Consortiumnews


Leaks at Hanford getting worse according to reports | Enformable
In August of 2012, officials confirmed publicly that a massive underground double-shell tank which stored
nuclear waste at the Hanford site was leaking. Now, less than a year after the initial announcements
it has been learned that the amount leaking from the tank has doubled in a short amount of time and no
plans have been made for how to deal with the problem.

The leaking AY-102 tank at Hanford holds some 860,000 gallons of the most toxic radioactive waste on the planet
that is spilling out of the primary tank into the "annulus" &#8211; a hollow area between the tanks inner and outer walls.
Video and photographic evidence released two months ago shows the accumulation of bright green liquid which
indicates the freshness of the material.
Leaks at Hanford getting worse according to reports | Enformable


U.S. Nuclear Accidents
The following is a compilation of some known events involving nuclear devices and facilities under U.S. jurisdiction, many involving fatalities. Note that this work is NOT an anti-nuclear diatribe, but rather an encyclopedic listing of facts pertaining to a particular topic; I am well aware of the dangers and negative ecological consequences of alternate energy forms (especially coal and petroleum-based fuels), but a discussion of those is beyond the subject matter of this page
U.S. Nuclear Accidents


Hanford Timeline
Hanford Facts - Trisha Thompson Pritikin
Hanford Timeline


Naaaw wouldn't be concerned a bit.
Ya might even get a faster tan up there..................

 

[PiratePast40]

How much time have you spent at Hanford. How many seminars have you sponsored, how many hours of classroom training have you given? How many projects would you consider yourself to have been instrumental in successful and safe completion? How many pre-job briefs have you attended? How many ALARA plans have you written? When was the last time that you spoke with anyone in the health physics world, either from the US or from international committees? How much of your life have you devoted to the application of radiation protection for occupational workers, the general public, and the environment?

Let me guess, the answer is NONE!

We need to be careful about statistics and misapplication of data. The type of references you have cited, can easily be used in the war against individual rights. In fact, that is what we're fighting now. Look closer at your statistics and look at the time frame. There were many events at the beginning, yet the severity and frequency of events has significantly decreased as technology, knowledge, and the application of both have advanced.

There is no such thing as zero risk in anything we do. Our trips on the highways today are full of risk as is the events we attend. Do we cry and whine about it? If something should happen at any of the pro-2A rallies around the country today, will we all start spouting all of the instances of death by gunfire?

Think carefully about what you criticize. Your lack of knowledge does not negate others deep knowledge of the subject.

 

[U201491]

How much time have you spent at Hanford. How many seminars have you sponsored, how many hours of classroom training have you given? How many projects would you consider yourself to have been instrumental in successful and safe completion? How many pre-job briefs have you attended? How many ALARA plans have you written? When was the last time that you spoke with anyone in the health physics world, either from the US or from international committees? How much of your life have you devoted to the application of radiation protection for occupational workers, the general public, and the environment?

Let me guess, the answer is NONE!

We need to be careful about statistics and misapplication of data. The type of references you have cited, can easily be used in the war against individual rights. In fact, that is what we're fighting now. Look closer at your statistics and look at the time frame. There were many events at the beginning, yet the severity and frequency of events has significantly decreased as technology, knowledge, and the application of both have advanced.

There is no such thing as zero risk in anything we do. Our trips on the highways today are full of risk as is the events we attend. Do we cry and whine about it? If something should happen at any of the pro-2A rallies around the country today, will we all start spouting all of the instances of death by gunfire?

Think carefully about what you criticize. Your lack of knowledge does not negate others deep knowledge of the subject.

I had 2 aunts, an uncle and cousin all die young of cancer that lived in between the Dalles and Yakima. All other relatives lived much longer lives free of cancer that did not grow up in that area, so it was not hereditary. Must have been the coffee :-/